Is BURBANK-CITY, WATER DEPT.'s water safe to drink?
BURBANK-CITY, WATER DEPT. has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. 105,603 people get their water from it, across 27,172 connections.
How this compares nationally
7 total violations and 1 health-based ones put BURBANK-CITY, WATER DEPT. at the 35th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 8,426 of 12,903.
Against the CA average
BURBANK-CITY, WATER DEPT.'s 1 health-based violations sit within the CA average of 5.8, across 803 systems statewide. See the lead and copper guide for why lead counts differently.
Most recent violation on record
BURBANK-CITY, WATER DEPT.'s most recent violation on record is dated 2022-01-09, with the most recent health-based one dated 1993-01-01. Last reported to EPA: 06/22/2026.
The concern categories on record
BURBANK-CITY, WATER DEPT.'s flagged contaminants and rule violations, grouped by what they actually mean for a filter choice rather than left as EPA's raw code list:
- Microbial contamination / treatment technique - flagged from: Coliform (TCR)
The most severe category on record is microbial contamination / treatment technique, which points toward a microbial-class filter if you want to address it directly.
What BURBANK-CITY, WATER DEPT.'s record does not cover
Everything on this page is BURBANK-CITY, WATER DEPT.'s own reported record under the Safe Drinking Water Act - a regulatory filing, not a sample of your tap. Between the utility's meter and BURBANK-CITY, WATER DEPT.'s customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 8,426th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.